Written in the last stages of letting go of the remarkable woman who had brought me into the world and who, along with my father, raised me into this complex world. My mother’s death struck me in a way I could never have imagined before the event, and the grief, like all heartfelt griefs, was like falling forever toward some foundation she had held which never seemed to arrive beneath my feet.
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